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Some Bizzare Label Some Bizarre Ltd It recounts his de rigeur plunge into drink, drugs and debauchery as well as being an intimate .. by Doyle Wesley.

Film/Music Contributions Coneheads (1993) “Heat” (1995) Val Kilmer, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Al Pacino. “Sleepers” (1996) Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, "The Insider" (1999), Al Pacino, Russell Crowe “Saving Grace” (2000) "Life of David Gale" (2003) Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, "Children of Men" (2006) Clive Owen, Michael Caine “This Is England” (2006) Danny Dyer, Pimp (2010) Just Go

with It (2011) Sightseers (2012) La La Land (2016) The Outrun (2024)

"Holidays for maniacs” stevø interviewed for Vis New and syndicated to over 70 National News Programs with interview featured on CNN sending holiday makers into war zones. Books

Dave Gahan: Depeche Mode & The Second Coming, Trevor Baker (Author) Depeche Mode, MONUMENT Depeche Mode - 100 million records sold. A BOOK FOR THE MASSES ..... DJ Stevo, who was also a concert organiser for up-and-coming artists (author) Dennis Burmeister & Sascha Lange, Translated by Lucy Renner-Jones Published: 13 December 2013

Publication Date: July 2013 Retail “Pop Music” Chart Number One U.S.A Writer S. Alexander Reed Published Oxford University “Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music” "After Cease to Exist" England 1981 – 1985 Some Bizzare that has disbursed royalties to Dimehart, including Coil's royalties, which Dimehart ought to have forwarded to the band. Black Vinyl White Powder By Simon Napier-Bell 2013 “Starmakers and Svengalis: The History of British Pop Management” (Author) Johnny Rogan went out and interviewed all the great British rock n' roll managers the last chapter. Stevo

How Soon Is Now?, (author) Richard King 2012 How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005 'If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself quoted Daniel Miller,- nobody had a clue about running a record company, and that was the best thing about it.' - Daniel Miller, Mute Records. Morrissey and Marr: The Severed Alliance Johnny Rogan (Author), The story of the rise and fall of The Smiths, the lives of singer Steven Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr and the differences that tore them apart. Jun 2012 Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion 2012 Encyclopedia of New Wave, The by Daniel Bukszpan (15 May 2012) Shadow players: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records James Nice (Author) 2011 Synthiepop - Die Gef Hlvolle K Lte: Geschichten des Synthiepop by Dirk Horst (24 Nov 2011) Depeche Mode - Just can't get enough: Die Biografie by Simon Spence, (9 Nov 2011) Blixa Bargeld and Einstürzende Neubauten: German Experimental Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) by Jennifer Shryane (1 Nov 2011) Dave Gahan - Sein Leben mit Depeche Mode by Trevor Baker and Henning Dedekind (Mar 2010) Gods, Gangsters and Honour by Steven Machat (4 Mar 2010) Stevo photograph on same page as G W Bush Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds (5 Feb 2009) How NOT to Make It in the Pop World (diary of an almost has-been) by John Barrow (6 Jul 2006) Depeche Mode “The Biography” by Steve Malins (6 Mar 2006) Depeche Mode “Stripped” by Jonathan Miller Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk by Simon Reynolds February 2006 The Unultimate Rockopedia Christie-Moore 2006 (11 Oct 2004) Crossfade: A Big Chill Anthology by Pete Lawrence and Vicki Howard (22 Sep 2004) New Romantics: The Look by Dave Rimmer (15 Sep 2003)The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock: Expanded and Updated Edition by Various, Colin Larkin and Paul Noyer (May 2003) Pop Music: Technology and Creativity - Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution Warner, 2003, The Rough Guide to Rock by Peter Buckley – 2003 The Music Lover's Guide to Record Collecting by Dave Thompson (17 Oct 2002) The "International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002" Industrial Evolution: Through the Eighties with Cabaret Voltaire By Mick Fish 2002

I WAS ELVIS PRESLEY'S BASTARD LOVE CHILD: Other Stories of Rock'n'roll Excess 1st Oct 2001 by Andrew Darlington Alternative Rock: The Best Musicians & Recordings (Third Ear) by Dave Thompson (23 Nov 2000) Tainted Life Marc Almond story features a larger than life cast of characters. Publication Date: 6 Oct 2000 Trouser Press Record Guide by S. Robbins (24 Mar 1997) Tape Delay: Confessions from the Eighties Underground Charles D. Neal (Author) is a unique collection of interviews and exclusive writing from 1987. Contributors include Marc Almond, Dave Ball, Chris and Cosey, Coil, Diamanda Galas, Laibach, Lydia Lunch. Psychic TV, Clint Ruin, Mark Stewart, Swans, Test Dept & Henry Rollins, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Genesis P. Orridge, Michael Gira, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Fall, Matt Johnson, New Order, Stevo "Rip it up and start again" (Author) Simon Reynolds 1984 Conform To Deform: The Weird And Wonderful World Of Some Bizzare, 14 Feb. 2023. Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn 2024 'Bedsit Land - The Strange Worlds of Soft Cell' Paddy Clarke 2024.'

31/05/2026

On this day in 1986, THE THE released Sweet Bird Of Truth

The single was supposed to be the opening salvo from Matt Johnson’s forthcoming masterpiece Infected. Instead, it became one of the most suppressed records in UK music history.

Just weeks earlier, US warplanes had bombed Tripoli and Benghazi in Operation El Dorado Canyon. An American pilot had gone down near Arab territory. CBS Records, an American multinational, had been told by Special Branch to remove their US flags from the building over fears of Libyan retaliation.

‘Sweet Bird Of Truth’ was a devastating portrait of a dying US pilot falling into the Gulf of Arabia, wrestling with duty, God, and the cultural abyss between Western power and Eastern fundamentalism. Its prescience proved uncomfortable, CBS pressed only 7,500 copies, after which it was deleted. Surprisingly, given its scarcity, it still reached number 88 in the UK charts.

Almost a year later the song got a proper release on 9th May 1987, this time promoted and supported by its controversial video. This time it manage to scrape to number 55, but history has proven kind. ‘Sweet Bird of Truth’ now stands as one of the most prophetically accurate records ever made. The Gulf War. 9/11. Iraq. Afghanistan. And now, in 2026, a full-scale US and Israeli military assault on Iran itself, with missiles falling over the very geography Matt Johnson imagined forty years ago this week.

“We're above the Gulf of Arabia... our altitude is falling.”

He wasn’t writing fiction – he was predicting the future.

26/05/2026

On this day in 1984… Marc Almond released ‘The Boy Who Came Back’

By May 1984 Soft Cell were gone, the Mambas were gone, and Marc Almond had already retired once (although he quickly reneged on that).

People may have thought – some even hoped – he was done. Instead he’d been working hard in a studio in Fränkishe Schweiz, Northern Bavaria with his brilliant backing band The Willing Sinners and producer Mike Hedges. Together they created a record that would move him away from former glories and forge his path as a solo artist – all on his own terms.

The first fruits of these German sessions were released by Some Bizzare in May 1984. ‘The Boy Who Came Back’ was Marc's first ever solo single, backed with fan-favourite ‘Joey Demento.’

The video – directed by the legendary Tim Pope – captured something of the song’s restless, road-worn spirit, and the single arrived in formats to suit every obsessive: 7”, 10” and 12”. Some Bizzare always believed in giving fans options.

It wasn’t a smash but then again it wasn’t meant to be. It was a statement. A first step. The beginning of a 45-year solo career that would take Marc through torch songs, orchestral pop, cabaret noir, trip hop, garage rock and countless other genres.

Once the boy had come back, he never left us again.

21/05/2026

“When you can see through people,
It may sometimes (hopefully not many)… hurt.
But when you can see, you know!
So your earnest altruistic attitude
– Cannot be abused!!!”

Stevø (taken from the sleeve of The The's 'Perfect' 12”, 1983)

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15/05/2026

Low stock warning.

The 2025 reissue of Coil's Scatology is close to selling out. Unavailable for decades, the Some Bizzare reissue of this seminal album is available on vinyl, CD and lossless audio via the Some Bizzare shop. If you haven't already picked up a copy of this seminal album then now is the time to do so.

https://somebizzarerecords.bandcamp.com/album/scatology

Praise for Scatology:

“[Scatology] is a mixture of emotion and experience, 10 tracks each with its own intriguing story.” Melody Maker, 1985

“The record’s achievement is its rendering of asocial, secret behaviour as physically bracing music, which remains attractive to the non-initiated without disguising its bizarre origins.” NME, 1985

“Scatology is one of the most inventive, ambitious and disciplined ‘avant’ albums I’ve ever heard.” Time Out, 1985

“An alchemist's mixture of rage, humour and provocation; of synth pop, industrial and the avant garde.” The Quietus, 2025

07/05/2026

Released on this day in 1982, Soft Cell’s ‘Torch’…

Under pressure to maintain their incredible success, Marc Almond and Dave Ball returned to New York to work again with Mike Thorne. “We needed a single,” said Dave, “And I wanted to do a kind of John Barry influenced torch number.” Marc had just the lyric to suit: “I wrote ‘Torch’ after a bar-room blues singer had brought me to tears. As she sung, I remember feeling so low, alone and loveless.”

The standalone single featured John Gatchell on trumpet and the downtown scenester and Soft Cell confidante Cindy Ecstasy on additional vocals. The sleeve, designed by Huw Feather, depicted the titular singer as bald and androgynous, based on Massenet’s Manon. The image was replicated in the Tim Pope directed video with Cindy donning a bald wig – something that was a surprise to her as well as Stevo. However, it had the required effect – the emotion in her video performance simply couldn’t have been faked.

Released in May 1982, the single climbed to No. 2 in the UK – Soft Cell’s highest-charting self-written record, kept off the top by Adam Ant’s ‘Goody Two Shoes’. “It should have been a number one record in the UK,” said Dave, “But apparently there were problems with the chart return shops, and we were actually selling three times as many copies as [Adam]. We were robbed!”

Soft Cell may have lost out at the time, but history has been kind. ‘Torch’ is often cited as the band’s artistic pinnacle and is one of their best-known and loved songs.

01/05/2026

Over forty years ago, two unlikely allies stood shoulder to shoulder in one of Britain's darkest industrial battles.

When Thatcher's government set out to break the miners' strike of 1984-85, Test Dept – industrial music pioneers channelling working-class fury through thunderous percussion and raw political noise – joined forces with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir to create something extraordinary.

The result? Shoulder to Shoulder. An album that fused pounding industrial rhythm with the heartbreaking beauty of Welsh choral tradition. This release was in support of the striking miners and their families.

May Day it is not only a bank holiday, it is a reminder of the spirit that drove workers in 1886 Chicago to demand dignity, fair pay, and the right to a life beyond the factory floor – the same spirit that burned in the valleys of South Wales a century later.

Scholars still cite Shoulder to Shoulder as a blueprint for socially conscious music. But more than that, it's a reminder that solidarity isn't just a word. Sometimes it's a sound – the beating of an oil drum and the power of a male voice choir.

Happy May Day.

17/04/2026

Some Bizz-Ads

Some Bizzare's strong visual identity extends beyond the record sleeves, videos and live presentation – even the company's ads are unique pieces of art.

Featuring original work from Andy ‘Dog’ Johnson, Huw Feather and SB's in-house designers, these pieces appeared briefly in the music press, then disappeared forever.

Art is central to the Some Bizzare ethos, particularly for Stevo for whom painting is an important part of the company's relaunch, not only as a record label, but also as a global art collective.

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10/04/2026

Released on this day in April 1987… Marc Almond’s Mother Fist And Her Five Daughters

After enjoying major chart success with his previous solo albums, Marc Almond’s Mother Fist And Her Five Daughters barely scraped the UK Top 40, spending just two weeks on the chart. However, almost 40 years on from its release, it’s regarded as a creative high point, as well as a fan favourite.

Born from Almond’s time in Barcelona, where he haunted the Spanish city’s underground bars and clubs, the album channelled that world into a genuinely timeless record. “The whole period was just really, really creative and experimental,” says pianist and co-writer Annie Hogan, “The whole Mother Fist period had a wonderful feeling.”

Drawing on European cabaret, Spanish flamenco, and the literary worlds of Capote and Genet, Almond and his band the Willing Sinners were at the peak of their powers. “Marc and the band were at their creative best,” says producer Mike Hedges. “It was such a joy to work on – an explosion of ecstasy and emotion!”

Mother Fist may not have bothered the charts, but critically Almond got some of the best reviews of his career. Q magazine captured its essence perfectly, saying the album “reeks of sado-masochism and blood on sand, fired by a torrid southern sun.”

Today it’s Almond’s highest-rated solo album on Rate Your Music, with five-stars from fans worldwide, and on the couple of occasions he has played the album live in full, the response has been incredible. Like all timeless records, it is ripe for rediscovery by new generations of music fans.

Unavailable on vinyl since its original 1987 release, a repressing is long overdue. What would you like to see included in an expanded deluxe edition?

07/04/2026

"With every kick in the face and every hurdle you pass the rewards get greater"

Stevø

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03/04/2026

There have been many Some Bizzare promo items produced over the years, including a few we couldn't possibly show here.

But this one we can: the Some Bizzare door wedge. Created around 1985 and featuring the second 'Bowler Hat' logo, even this humble item was imbued with allegorical meaning.

"Some Bizzarre was – and still is – all about keeping the door open for artists too adventurous or weird for the big major labels," says Stevo. "We opened the door to great artists and allowed them though to express themselves freely."

Very few were made, and even fewer made their way out of the New Cavendish Street office. Would you like to see the Some Bizzare door wedge make a return to the Some Bizzare shop?

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